lopping

verb

present participle of lop
as in pruning

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lopping
  1. pruning
  2. trimming
  3. clipping
  4. curtailing
  5. paring
  6. cropping
  7. hacking
  8. nipping
Verb
  • States can help by pruning occupational licensing requirements and making credentials modular and stackable, so short qualifications add up into longer ones.
    — Eric Kutcher, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2026
  • It’s been a dynamic year with a varied complexion of transactions, from mega-mergers to portfolio pruning through corporate divestitures.
    — Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of pruning
Verb
  • The Legislature has been trimming home building regulations and should continue.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026
  • During the winter holidays, millions of people are traveling, many of whom are expected at the Thanksgiving table or tree-trimming party.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of trimming
Verb
  • Their eulogy was her father, Fidel Banda, methodically clipping and arranging the flowers for his daughter.
    — Jesse Bedayn, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Not your average road dog, Berlant only recently began taking a notebook onstage and clipping her work for social media.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2026
Definition of clipping
Verb
  • In October alone, Houthi missile strikes on Saudi airports have killed at least 21 people and wounded hundreds, forcing authorities to shut down operations in the country’s main international airport in Riyadh and curtailing travel in others.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026
  • Iran is now stepping up attacks on tankers transiting Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, curtailing the volume of oil exiting the region and keeping global crude prices north of $100 a barrel.
    — Lou Robinson, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of curtailing
Verb
  • Shares were last down under 2%, paring losses after declining more than 6% in early trading Wednesday.
    — Jenny Lee, CNBC, 28 Oct. 2026
  • In other stock markets abroad, indexes in Europe dipped after paring bigger losses from earlier in the day.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of paring
Verb
  • The photo editing tools are also limited to basic actions like cropping and rotating.
    — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Meta released its Content Seal AI watermark recently, but Reuters found that simply cropping the images a bit would often eliminate the watermark.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2026
Definition of cropping
Verb
  • From 2019 to 2024, the Chinese hacking group MirrorFace conducted over 200 cyberattacks against Japanese defense, national security, and advanced technology targets.
    — Sam Mullins, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2026
  • CrowdStrike traced the campaign to ARTEX, an open-source AI hacking agent built in China and run alongside Anthropic’s Claude Code, and said the actor could be a 26-year-old.
    — Jay Kaplan, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of hacking
Verb
  • Across the fashion week map this season, chic showgoers made slouchy leather jackets the crux of their street style looks, while models nipping between casting calls threw their own bikers over basics on the run.
    — Christina Holevas, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026
  • This is an issue that, to my mind, keeps nipping at the heels of the current crop of directorial It Boys.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2026
Definition of nipping
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“Lopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopping. Accessed 2 Nov. 2026.

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